armature
IPA: ɑrmʌtʃɝ
noun
- The rotating part of an electric motor or dynamo, which mostly consists of coils of wire (the winding) around a metal core.
- The moving part in an electromechanical device like a loudspeaker or a buzzer.
- A piece of soft steel or iron that connects the poles of a magnet, to preserve its strength by forming a circuit.
- (sculpture) A supporting framework in a sculpture.
- (computer graphics) A kinematic chain (a system of bones or rigid bodies connected by joints) that is used to pose and deform models, often character models.
- A protective organ, structure, or covering of an animal or plant, for defense or offense, like claws, teeth, thorns, or the shell of a turtle.
- Armor, or a suit of armor.
- Any apparatus for defence.
- The frame of a pair of glasses.
verb
- To provide with an armature (any sense).
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Examples of "armature" in Sentences
- An electromagnet is employed to move the armature.
- The motor armature is connected between the two center taps.
- An armature winding is comprised of at least one armature coil.
- These hedges use a metal armature, to prefigure the mature hedge.
- It was nicknamed the pancake motor because of the armature's shape.
- Friction device is provided to damp the continued movement of the armature.
- Biped builds and animates skeletal armatures, ready for character animation.
- The disclosure is also of a method for mounting the insulator in the armature.
- The effect of armature flux on the main field is called the armature reaction.
- The brake disk is couplable with a frictional surface of a brake armature disk.
- Interwoven through the armature was a continuous white canvas ribbon emblazoned with the
- King Kong armature from the 1933 film was recently auctioned off by Christie’s of London.
- I think they need some kind of armature, or make them out of straight concrete and thicker.
- She built some kind of armature on my head and was able to make all of the hair stand on end.
- The cylindrical structure on the end of an armature, which is designed to change the polarity of the current.
- The armature was the base for a 56cm (22in) model of the gorilla used in the film's climax at the top of the Empire State Building in New York.
- This depression is effected by means of an electro-magnet, E, whose armature, which is connected with the rod, _t, t_, lifts the arm, _i_, of the lever, and depresses A.
- In these, by means of a steam-engine or other power, a number of coils of wire called the armature are set into rapid revolution between the poles of powerful electro-magnets.
- "Second: The plastic mediator - that is to say, the metallic envelope, separated from the epidermis and the flesh, a kind of armature with flexible joints, in wich the internal system is firmly fixed."
- The most convenient motion to give the conductor in practice is one of rotation, and hence the dynamo usually consists of a coil or series of coils of insulated wire termed the "armature," which is mounted on a spindle and rapidly rotated in a strong magnetic field between the poles of powerful magnets.
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